Traveller Information Services Association
Home of the TMC and TPEG standards
Teun Hendriks
ETSI workshop on ITS
Sophia Antipolis, 4 February 2009
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Traffic Information – Context
Traffic information is a key element of an overall ITS policy
Knowledge of traffic situation supports safe, efficient journeys
Traffic information is useful before and during a journey
To plan if / when / how to make the journey
To avoid congestion during the journey
To receive warnings of incidents on the planned route
Traffic information should be coherent – between web pages, TV
& radio news, roadside signs and navigation systems
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Traffic information standards – a long road
RDS-TMC: Radio-Data System – Traffic Message Channel
• 1984:
Start of development
• 1992-1994:
Field trials in several EC member states
• 1997:
First operational services
•…
• 2008:
New services in development in e.g. Baltic States,
Israel, Mexico, Portugal, South Africa, New Zealand,
TPEG: Traffic Protocol Experts Group
• 1997:
Start of development
• 2000-2003:
EC project TPEG with field trials
• 2004-2007:
Mobile.info follow-on project with field trials
• 2008:
First test services in UK over DAB
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TMC services in Europe: Status October 2008
TMC
TMC planned
No TMC
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TMC services worldwide: Status Nov. 2008
TMC
TMC planned
SAT-TMC (SDARS)
VICS
TMC and RTLink
No TMC
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The standards challenge: local versus global
Address local variations and cultural diversities
Harmonize local differences (“stau” vs. “bouchon” vs. “backup”)
Provide internationalization and translation support
Local variation
Global standards
consistency
Safeguarding a global traffic information service standard
Maintain single source of responsibility
Provide meeting forum to discuss issues, standards extensions,
service concepts, with all parties involved
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Introduction to TISA
Background
Vision & objectives
Structure & activities
Committees
Development topics
Standardisation
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Traveller Information Services Association
Launched Nov. 2007 - Not for profit, hosted by ERTICO
Takes over activities of TMC Forum, TPEG Forum and German
Mobile.Info project – custodian of mobile.info deliverables
Worldwide scope, market driven priorities
Members from across the globe and across the traffic & travel
information service chain
• Including public authorities
Development, deployment, support of standardisation
• TPEG traffic and travel information
• TMC traffic information
• Other areas of travel information technology
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TISA mission
Culture: TISA offers an environment where the values and
needs of service and content providers, broadcasters, public
authorities and industry meet.
Mission: TISA creates and maintains global, open traffic and
traveler information standards and policies that increase the
safety and efficiency of traveling.
Vision: TISA coordinates the concerns and contributions of its
global membership with the aim to foster business, customer,
and society value of TISA standards based services and
products.
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TISA structure
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Key TISA Activities
Use Case procedure
TPEG application development
TMC new features (backwards compatible)
Deployment support – best practices / administration
Processes leading to Standardisation
Promotion of travel information standards
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Technical & Standardisation Committee
Brings together the technical development of new features and
applications and readies them for either international
standardisation or de facto specifications for use amongst TISA
members.
Chairman role shared by Heinz-Werner Pfeiffer of Bosch and
Teun Hendriks representing Clear Channel
Provides a mechanism for the formalisation, specification and
standardisation of new applications
Peer review and sharing of best-practice in new application
development
Liaison with Standardisation Organisations and regional /
technology-based associations
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Content & Service Provision Committee
Brings together an end-to-end concern for information content
and provision to the end-user.
Chairman Jonathan Burr of ITIS Holdings
Collects experience and implementation best practices from
large-scale deployment undertaken by members
Supports informed configuration and specification of TPEG
content collection and service provision parameters
Addresses business models and market impact of developments
for validation of technical development choices
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Products Committee
Initiates and coordinates the creation and maintenance of
TISA products and safeguards quality
Chairman Theo Kamalski of TomTom
TISA products: e.g. specifications and implementation
guidelines, message lists in various languages, encryption keys
and development & certification tools
Facilitates distribution - where development work results in new
TISA products, the Committee provides a mechanism for
publishing to the wider world and coordinating usage.
Files and administers TISA products and versioning and creates
and maintains certification repository
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Standardisation
RDS-TMC and TPEG services rely upon international
Standards…
TISA Members are committed to ongoing international
Standardisation to support TISA services and
implementations…
The international Standards Organisations concerned are:
• ISO -International Standards Organisation
• CEN –Comité Européene Normalisation
• ETSI –European Telecommunications Standardisation
Institute
RDS-TMC is standardised in the EN ISO 14819–series
TPEG is standardised in the CEN ISO/TS 18234-series
(Binary) and the CEN ISO/TS 24530-series (XML)
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TISA Working Groups
Example: TPEG Applications Working group
Tasked with developing TPEG applications in response to Use
Cases submitted by TISA members
Takes up the role of the former TPEG Forum Standards Task
Force. Its membership is made up of a small group of dedicated
technical developers
The most technical group working on TPEG in TISA – in addition
to applications, it addresses other topics such as adaptation
layers for different bearers.
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Current Use Cases for TPEG
Weather Information (WEA)
• Weather and related content for travellers, including air pressure, cloud
type/cover, flood warning, pollution index, precipitation etc.
• Current information, predicted information and local (area) measured
information including ‘emergency notifications’ related to severe weather
situations.
Fuel Price Information (FPI)
• Static and dynamic data linked with availability and price of vehicle fuels
Traffic Flow & Prediction (TFP)
• Transmission of status oriented traffic flow information for road networks.
• Data for navigations systems for route guidance and for display to the
driver directly. Covers not only current traffic flows but also predicted
traffic states.
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Further TISA Working Groups
Development of new features for TMC, e.g. addressing
• New Toll Bridge and Safety events (including ‘Amber-alert’)
• Coding IVR response number for TMC
Development and maintenance of lists and tables – e.g. TMC
event list, TPEG application tables
Certification of TMC location tables (170 in 2008!)
Administration of Service and Application IDs and Conditional
Access
Harmonisation of services across markets and between services
and receivers
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Summary - Standards need a home and TLC
TISA provides:
Technical development of applications
matched with administrative and deployment
support activities
Use Case procedure provides framework for
developing new applications
Peer review & best practices – a two-way
process
Open standards
Synergy – a win-win situation!
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Thank you for your attention!
For further information:
TISA Executive Office
James Burgess (j.burgess@tisa.org)
www.tisa.org
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